Amazon SQS Contracts in England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 482 489
Rank change year-on-year +107 +7 +82
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 118 66 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 0.54% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 47 106
10th Percentile £400 £363 £463
25th Percentile £425 £418 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £690 £663 £680
90th Percentile £775 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £579
% change year-on-year -6.98% -7.17% +5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £35.75 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £44.38 - -
90th Percentile £46.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

Amazon SQS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,588 12,113 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.63% 32.43% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,479 8,643 12,570
10th Percentile £312 £306 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 330 288
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +53.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £69.63
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in England over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the England region over the 6 months to 29 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +83 76 £519 -7.78% 71
West Midlands +24 16 £500 +42.86% 3
Midlands +22 16 £500 +42.86% 4
North of England +12 15 £500 -1.96% 22
North West +5 7 £450 -11.76% 19
Yorkshire +8 5 £525 +27.27% 2
North East - 3 £575 - 1
East of England - 3 £538 - 6
South East +45 2 £500 -15.97% 15
South West - 2 £375 - 3
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Documentum
2 4 (3.39%) FileNet
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) JBoss
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (62.71%) Serverless
3 70 (59.32%) Amazon S3
4 69 (58.47%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (29.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (27.12%) Amazon ECS
7 32 (27.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (17.80%) SaaS
9 18 (15.25%) GitHub
10 16 (13.56%) AWS KMS
10 16 (13.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (12.71%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (10.17%) AWS Fargate
13 11 (9.32%) Route 53
14 10 (8.47%) Amazon Cognito
15 9 (7.63%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (5.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.78%) HTTP
2 4 (3.39%) DNS
3 3 (2.54%) Firewall
3 3 (2.54%) SSL
3 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.69%) Network Security
4 2 (1.69%) VPN
5 1 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (44.92%) DynamoDB
2 38 (32.20%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (31.36%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (16.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (9.32%) Relational Database
6 9 (7.63%) Redis
7 8 (6.78%) DocumentDB
8 6 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.08%) MySQL
8 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.69%) DB2
12 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (28.81%) Git
2 29 (24.58%) Jenkins
3 23 (19.49%) JUnit
4 22 (18.64%) SonarQube
5 20 (16.95%) Maven
6 13 (11.02%) Mockito
7 8 (6.78%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (6.78%) Cucumber
7 8 (6.78%) DbUnit
7 8 (6.78%) jMock
8 7 (5.93%) GitLab
9 5 (4.24%) git-flow
9 5 (4.24%) JIRA
10 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
10 4 (3.39%) Mocha
11 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.54%) Postman
11 3 (2.54%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (1.69%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
General
1 40 (33.90%) Public Sector
2 19 (16.10%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Banking
4 9 (7.63%) Finance
5 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.39%) Military
7 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.69%) Aviation
8 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (48.31%) Developer
2 25 (21.19%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.49%) AWS Developer
4 22 (18.64%) Architect
5 20 (16.95%) Senior
6 19 (16.10%) Security Architect
7 15 (12.71%) Software Engineer
8 13 (11.02%) Lead
9 12 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (6.78%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (6.78%) Lead Developer
10 8 (6.78%) Lead Java Developer
10 8 (6.78%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.93%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Backend Developer
12 6 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.51%) Node.js
2 28 (23.73%) React
2 28 (23.73%) Spring
3 25 (21.19%) Spring Boot
4 21 (17.80%) Web Services
5 20 (16.95%) REST
6 17 (14.41%) AWS CDK
6 17 (14.41%) Hibernate
7 16 (13.56%) AngularJS
7 16 (13.56%) Jest
7 16 (13.56%) RESTful
8 15 (12.71%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (11.86%) JPA
9 14 (11.86%) SOAP
9 14 (11.86%) WebSockets
10 12 (10.17%) Kafka
11 11 (9.32%) Spring Batch
11 11 (9.32%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (9.32%) Spring Integration
12 10 (8.47%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Onboarding
2 19 (16.10%) CSOC
2 19 (16.10%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.54%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.69%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.69%) PKI
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.02%) Linux
2 5 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.85%) CentOS
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) Microservices
2 41 (34.75%) Agile
3 39 (33.05%) CI/CD
3 39 (33.05%) DevOps
4 30 (25.42%) Containerisation
5 22 (18.64%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (17.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (17.80%) SIEM
7 20 (16.95%) TDD
8 19 (16.10%) Clean Code
8 19 (16.10%) Security Operations
8 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
8 19 (16.10%) Use Case
9 18 (15.25%) SOAR
9 18 (15.25%) Test Automation
10 17 (14.41%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (13.56%) Scrum
12 15 (12.71%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (10.17%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.05%) Java
2 29 (24.58%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.88%) Python
3 27 (22.88%) SQL
4 25 (21.19%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.08%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.39%) Rust
6 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.69%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) PHP
7 2 (1.69%) R
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (41.53%) Security Cleared
2 46 (38.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.24%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.39%) Degree
7 2 (1.69%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) GDPR
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.54%) WCAG
3 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.69%) NIST
3 2 (1.69%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (34.75%) Docker
2 9 (7.63%) Postfix
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (19.49%) Terraform
2 21 (17.80%) Prometheus
3 16 (13.56%) Kubernetes
4 14 (11.86%) Grafana
5 10 (8.47%) Ansible
6 2 (1.69%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 25 (21.19%) Splunk
2 9 (7.63%) Oracle
3 8 (6.78%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.78%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (5.93%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.54%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.69%) Sybase
8 1 (0.85%) Actifio
8 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.85%) New Relic
8 1 (0.85%) OpenText
8 1 (0.85%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.85%) Solace
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